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A white passenger jet is seen from above, flying to the right through a blue sky a white puffy clouds.

NASA awards $11.5 million to help design the aircraft of tomorrow

By Samantha Mathewson published

NASA has awarded $11.5 million to five organizations that will contribute to the study of new design concepts for more sustainable aircraft.

Tech

NASA begins stacking SLS rocket for Artemis 2 moon mission (photos)

By Elizabeth Howell published

The solid rocket boosters are coming together.

Artemis
two black holes in space are surrounded by swirling gases the color of a peacock's tail feathers.

Unusual black hole light bursts puzzle astronomers: 'We are finding a lot of weird stuff'

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

"This is very different from anything I have seen before."

Black Holes
illustration of two moon rovers and a large white spacecraft on the lunar surface

SpaceX's Starship will fly Lunar Outpost's rover to the moon

By Mike Wall published

Lunar Outpost has picked SpaceX's Starship vehicle to launch its new moon rover and land the wheeled vehicle on the moon.

Moon Rovers

SpaceX and NASA show off how Starship will help astronauts land on the moon (images)

By Brett Tingley published

NASA and SpaceX released a new set of illustrations showing off how Starship might look as it lands astronauts on the moon during the Artemis 3 mission.

Artemis
Side by side images show a tall white rocket landed on the moon on the left, with a rover on its left on the grey surface. Earth is setting on the horizon against the black of space. On the right, a shorter lander, cylindrical, with a lifting platform lowered to the surface with a rover aboard.

NASA chooses SpaceX and Blue Origin to deliver rover, astronaut base to the moon

By Josh Dinner published

NASA is planning to assign SpaceX and Blue Origin 'demonstration missions' for their Artemis Program lunar landers, with eyes to put a habitat on the moon by 2033.

Artemis
Before the shadowy backdrop of the lunar surface from high up, a teardrop shaped mission patch graphic reads 'south pole safety challenge, lunar rescue system'

Will astronauts need to be rescued from the moon? NASA wants to be prepared just in case

By Samantha Mathewson published

NASA is seeking the public's help creating emergency response plans for future missions to the moon.

Artemis
rocket launching into the early evening sky

Russian Soyuz rocket launches supplies to ISS on 90th Progress cargo spacecraft (video)

By Elizabeth Howell last updated

Liftoff occurred at 7:22 a.m. EST. (1222 GMT).

International Space Station
a partial panoramic view of a rusty landscape with large broken rocks embedded in the redbrown ground.

NASA's Curiosity rover captures 360-degree view of Mars — and finds strange sulfur stones

By Julian Dossett published

The Curiosity shows sulfur stones, with no explanation of how they occurred on the Martian surface.

Mars
Graphic illustration of large rocky objects in the solar system.

'There are lots of mysteries in our backyard': Revised solar system chemistry explains long-standing puzzles

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

"We have been calling Uranus an ice giant, but we don't really know its nature."

Solar System
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